Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifth-century lyric and drama with the poetic corpus attributed to Hesiod as well as with the poetic figure of Hesiod. The first half of the book is dedicated to Hesiodic reception in Pindaric and Bacchylidean poetry, with a particular focus on poetics, genealogies and mythological narratives, and didactic voices. The second half examines how Hesiodic narratives are approached and appropriated in tragedy and satyr drama, especially in the Prometheus plays and in Euripides' Ion. It also explores the multifaceted engagement of Old Comedy with the poetry and authority associated with Hesiod. Through close readings of numerous case studies, the book surveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in the fifth century BCE, focusing primarily on lyric and dramatic responses to the Hesiodic tradition.

Hesiodus, --- Greek drama --- Greek drama. --- Greek poetry --- Greek poetry. --- Griechisch. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Literatur. --- Rezeption. --- History and criticism. --- Hesiod --- Hesiod. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hésiode --- Greek literature --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος --- E-books --- Greek poetry - Criticism and interpretation --- Hesiod - Criticism and interpretation

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it rethinks fundamentally the emergence of systematic epistemology and reflection on speculative inquiry in Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides. Shaul Tor argues that different forms of reasoning, and different models of divine disclosure, play equally integral, harmonious and mutually illuminating roles in early Greek epistemology. Throughout, the book relates these thinkers to their religious, literary and historical surroundings. It is thus also, and inseparably, a study of poetic inspiration, divination, mystery initiation, metempsychosis and other early Greek attitudes to the relations and interactions between mortal and divine. The engagements of early philosophers with such religious attitudes present us with complex combinations of criticisms and creative appropriations. Indeed, the early milestones of philosophical epistemology studied here themselves reflect an essentially theological enterprise and, as such, one aspect of Greek religion.

Pre-Socratic philosophers. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Pre-Socratics --- Presocratic philosophers --- Presocratics --- Philosophers --- Hesiod. --- Xenophanes, --- Parmenides. --- Senofane, --- Xénophane, --- Ξενοφάνης, --- Xenophanēs, --- Ksenofanes, --- Hesiod --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος